Barack Obama to unveil new Technology Plan

The full plan can be seen below at the link. It contains several new proposals, including the appointment of technology czar called a Chief Technology Officer. The CTO’s mandate would be quite different from the Cybersecurity czar appointed under the Bush Administration. Bush’s czar helped defend against cyberattacks. Obama’s CTO, by contrast, would ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans, according to the plan. Pretty cool.

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